PREVIOUS AWARDS

Academician Maw-Kuen Wu's Personal Profiles

Education:

• B.S., Physics, Tamkang University (1973)
• M.S., Physics, Tamkang University (1975)
• Ph. D. Physics, University of Houston (1981)

Professional Experience:

• Research Scientist in Physics, University of Houston (1982-1984)
• Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Alabama in Huntsville (1984-1987)
• Professor of Physics, University of Alabama in Huntsville (1987-1988)
• Professor of Applied Physics, Columbia University (1988-1994)
• Visiting Chair Professor, National Tsing Hua University (1989-1994)
• Professor, Department of Physics and Materials Science Center, National Tsing Hua University (1995－)
• Deputy Minister, National Science Council (2000-2002)
• Minister, National Science Council (2004-2006)
• Director, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica (2002-2004, 2006-2012)
• Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica (2002－)
• Distinguished Professor of Physics & President of National Dong Hwa University (2012－)

Specialties:

• Low Temperature Physics
• High Pressure Physics
• Superconductivity and Magnetism

Awards and Honors:

• Comstock Prize, The National Academy of Sciences (1988)
• NASA Special Awards (1988)
• Tamkang Golden Eagle Award, Tamkang University (1989)
• Bernd T. Mattias Prize (1994)
• Outstanding Scholar Award, Foundation for the advancement of Outstanding Scholarship (1995)
• Academician, Academia Sinica, R.O.C. (1998)
• Foreign Associate, U.S. National Academy of Sciences (2004)
• TWAS Fellow, The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (2004)
• Ettore Majorana Prize -Erice-Science for Peace (2008)
• Taiwanese-American Foundation Prize (2009)
• Humboldt Research Award (2010)
• Nikkei Asia Prize (2011)
• ROC Presidential Science Prize (2011)

Current Positions:

• Distinguished Professor of Physics & President of National Dong Hwa University